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post pedestrian - Pedestrian Blog 13 Jun, 2024

Walk 148

KoraCircling the great stupa of Boudhanath, along with monks, nuns, Tibetans, Nepalis, westerners, easterners, northerners, southerners. All the mantras muttered, butter lamps lit, prostrations offered, prayer wheels spun, incense burned, hundreds or thousands of years of people doing walking meditation here, weaving tendrel with their footsteps, making the world a little more compassionate and wise. The sound of monastic horns and drums floats over the rooftops as the sun sets.Locat [...]

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Boudhha, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal
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The URL leads to the Pedestrian Blog hosted on Sandra Cowan’s website, which focuses on themes related to walking, art, and urban space. The blog features reflections, essays, and project documentation that explore walking as a cultural and artistic practice. It engages with the ways pedestrian movement intersects with environmental, social, and spatial contexts, often considering walking as a method of inquiry and creative expression within the urban landscape. The entries include discussions on walking art projects, public space interventions, and the experiential qualities of navigating city environments on foot. The blog situates these practices within broader discourses of cultural geography and environmental psychology, highlighting the significance of walking in understanding place, identity, and community dynamics. It serves as a resource for those interested in the intersections of art, geography, and pedestrian culture.
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GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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